It was a beautiful 75 degree evening and after dinner we decided to take a stroll.

We walked to the school and as we approached I noticed something...rather some thingS.The kids promptly took to the playground and I walked closer to the items strewn about the blacktop.I kid you not, I found...

6 sweatshirts1 shirt1 pair of sweats1 jacket2 lunch pails1 shoe1 sock

andget this...a broken bottle of medication with a student's name I recognize on it.

Um. Yeah.

How do you NOT know that you're missing a shoe!?

Why aren't medications stored in the office, let alone being carried around by a child?

I also asked DQ if any of her classmates return after recess half-naked!!

Don't answer that.

But, seriously. I would have collected the stuff and hauled it to the lost and found bin, but the school's locked up weekends.

Some of this stuff looked near new.

As I continued to look around, I was preparing my speech if I would have found a familiar piece of clothing.

Luckily I did not need to preach.

Is it always like this or did I just hit the school-yard-sale lottery?!

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My mother's favorite admonishment - other than "Chew with your goddamn mouth shut, will ya? We got our own food to enjoy, you know?" - while I was growing up was "What the hell do you do do with your clothes, spread them around the friggin' neighborhood?!" (Mom was and still is colorfully linguistic)

It always amazed me the amount of clothing that would be on the lost and found racks at Tara's elementary school... the one thing that she lost in her 5 years at that school though, never was found! I guess someone else like her brand new Disney sweatshirt!

It is always like that! I am disgusted and perplexed by our Lost and Found bin. This year I bought a laundry basket so when I take the kids out to recess and they're done eating or get hot and want to disrobe they just put the items in the tub. I think my class has only lost 5 items max, and they honestly will admit they didn't put their items in the basket. Any other teachers reading this...buy a basket for your students to put their things in during breaks.

honestly, I think its always like this... my little one is too little to leave stuff behind because I am always on top of him, but he would if I wasn't paying attention (especially shoes and socks). And I have a much younger brother (21 years) and my mother is always telling me how he lost his beach towel, goggles, one flip flop, etc...

I don't know how you "lose" a shoe either...My four year ran up to me the other night at a baseball game crying saying she had lost her shoe. "um why didn't you turn around and pick it up when it came off????" Luckily we found it but seriously how do you lose a shoe!

It is ALWAYS like that. I cannot even keep track of how many times my kids have come home missing something and I have just wanted to scream because how do you forget your entire backpack?! IT IS SCHOOL! And yes, he has lost a shoe before. I don't know....This makes me happy that it is not just me. Phew!

My youngest kid has "lost" a few items that he deemed ugly from the start. Convenient. His older brothers were much better at keeping track of their things...of course I think they were also more afraid of Mama's wrath, lol. I must be losing my touch. The medication thing is not cool tho, I hope the contents didn't wind up in the wrong hands! Eeek.

I have to say ... I see single shoes so often on the side of the road that I started counting them ... last year ... I counted 274 of them ... separate! I kid you not! In addition ... the other day ... driving ... there was an inflatable teddy bear sitting on the side of the highway ... happily watching the cars drive by.